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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Korean Studies Graduate Students:<br>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to draw your attention to this mini-conference/graduate student workshop that is being organized at the Center for Korean
Studies, University of Hawai'i. The event will focus on drilling down into the origins of Korean identity
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and examine it from a multidisciplinary perspective. In this regard, we have invited five scholars from different disciplines (anatomy, archaeology, genetics, linguistics, sociology)
to </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">give a series of public lectures on the first day and then on the second and third days to be involved in a closed door workshop organized for graduate students and led by
the five </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">invited scholars. The event is specifically designed to allow you to have the opportunity to interact with these scholars and other graduate students and particularly
to understand </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how other disciplines may define Korean identity. The idea here is that what you learn from being involved with this conference will help you with your own research
projects as </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they evolve.</span><br>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The public lecture component of the event is obviously open to one and all. However, if you are interested in participating in the graduate
student workshop component of the event, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then please send me via email a current Curriculum vitae and a 1-2 page single spaced statement about your research project and how you
think participating in this workshop </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">could help you with your own research. In addition, your advisor must send me directly a recommendation letter that verifies that you are
who you are, are a graduate student in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">good standing, and that participating in such a workshop could help you develop your own research project(s) now and/or down the road. The
submission deadline is </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 September 2018</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for both your application materials and the letter
from your advisor.</span> If chosen to participate, we will be able to cover your travel expenses (i.e., roundtrip economy class airfare and room and board during the conference).<br>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to receiving your application materials in due course.</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yours sincerely,<br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher J. Bae, Ph.D.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Department of Anthropology</span><br>
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<div style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Editor,
</span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Korean Studies</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> & Hawaii Studies On Korea</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Center for Korean Studies</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">University of Hawai'i at Manoa</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Phone: (808) 956-7353</span><br>
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<div style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WHO ARE “KOREANS”:
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<div style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">KOREAN IDENTITY VIEWED THROUGH DIFFERENT
LENSES</span></b></span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12-14 December 2018</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Organizer: Christopher J. Bae</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Korea, as we know it today, is quite distinct from neighboring China and
Japan. The question though is can it be identified, when viewed through </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">different lenses, when “Korea” as we have come to know it began to take form? In all likelihood, different
fields will provide different perspectives </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on this origins questions, but the primary question will be, when specialists from different disciplines are brought together to discuss
this topic, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">can a consensus be drawn? If so, what might it be? If no clear consensus can be drawn, then why not? In particular, by examining Korean
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">identity from behavioral and biological perspectives do researchers from different disciplines view Korean identity differently? If so, why? Here, we
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bring together a group of established scholars and advanced graduate students to drill down into each of these various disciplines using the origin
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of Korean identity question as the basic framework to ask more detailed questions.</span></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Invited Speakers:
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Choongwon Jeong (Max Planck Jena – genetics)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jaeeun Kim (University of Michigan – sociology)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jangsuk Kim (Seoul National University – archaeology)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U-Young Lee (Catholic University – anatomy)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Whitman (Cornell University – linguistics)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Schedule</span></b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday (12 December)</span></u></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:00-9:30</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening Introductions</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:30-10:30
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</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jaeeun Kim (sociology)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10:45-11:45
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</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U-Young Lee (anatomy)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1:30-2:30</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Choongwon Jeong (population genetics)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:45-3:45</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Whitman (historical linguistics)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4:00-5:00</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jangsuk Kim (archaeology)</span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thursday (13 December)</span></u></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:30-12:00</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Workshop (Korean identity today)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2:00-5:00</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Workshop (Korean identity origins)</span></font></span></font></div>
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<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday (14 December)</span></u></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt;"><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:30-11:30</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Workshop (wrap up synthesis)</span></font></span></font></div>
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